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December Skills Nights Recap

By KOHA Staff, 01/24/18, 10:45AM EST

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ON-ICE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
 
Focus:
  • Shooting and scoring, skating, angling and backchecking
 
What the kids learned:
  • Angling right and left
  • Shooting and scoring off of loose pucks
  • Defensive coverage and offensive separation
 
Moving forward:
  • Focus on puck retrievals (out of the corner, off the wall and net front); backward skating; passing; stickhandling.
OFF-ICE TRAINING WITH ATHLETIC MENTORS
 
 
10u/12u
FOCUS: Continued progression of learned exercises, hard work, and loving the gym!
SPEED/AGILITY/PLYO: Jumps/hops with a focus on sticking landing, change of direction, and medicine ball throws for power.
STRENGTH:
  • Body control through balance and core training
  • Lower body movements - squat, hip extension, lunge progressions
  • Upper body movements - horizontal push/pull and vertical push/pull progressions
 
14u/16u
FOCUS: Continued progression of learned exercises, hard work, and loving the gym!
SPEED/AGILITY/PLYO: Jumps in 3 different planes (FWD, LAT, ROT), change of direction, and medicine ball throws for power.
STRENGTH:
  • Body control through balance and core training
  • Lower body movements - squat, lunge, hip extension, lunge progressions
  • Upper body movements - horizontal push/pull and vertical push/pull progressions
 
WHAT TO EXPECT MOVING FORWARD
  • Continued progression of proper form on learned exercises
  • Introduce more challenging variations of learned exercises
 
A Special Note From the Athletic Mentors Team:
From the entire Athletic Mentors Team, we want to wish you all a Happy New Year!! 2017 was a fantastic year for us with the opening of our Wings West facility. It has been a privilege to get to know your kids and coach them at the gym. They have done a great job learning and working hard, their improvements from early September have been fantastic! We encourage all to keep attending our open gym training sessions and continue to get better in 2018!!